Register Now: 2020 Clinical Bioethics Symposium The Inaugural Clinical Bioethics Symposium will be held Saturday, January 25, 2020, and Sunday, January 26, 2020, at the UTRGV School of Medicine Auditorium.

International Study Helps Predict Heart & Vascular Disease UTRGV SOM professor Dr. Gladys Maestre, is part of an international study that found blood pressure over 24 hours is best predictor of heart, vascular disease.

Welcome

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine offers an exceptionally innovative learning experience designed to instill students with scientific, clinical and research expertise of the highest professional standards.

Our goal is to attract the best talent from the Valley, the state, the country and beyond for faculty and staff positions. We are fortunate to have laid some of this groundwork over the past 15 years through the Regional Academic Health Centers in Harlingen and Edinburg. The UTRGV School of Medicine opened in the summer of 2016 and welcomed 55 students into its charter class.

Events

News

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine will welcome its fourth class of medical students into the medical profession with a White Coat Ceremony, 10 a.m. Saturday, July 27, at the UTRGV Performing Arts Complex Auditorium, 1201 W. University Drive in Edinburg.

UTRGV SOM is committed to providing a diverse environment for faculty, students and staff. The School of Medicine is a community that appreciates, values and seeks the different dimensions that age, race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, experiences, perspectives, lifestyles sexual orientation, geographic regions and cultures have to offer.